If President Obama was trying to quietly dispel the notion that he sympathetic to the cause of Muslim extremists in the Middle East, the big-news item over the weekend definitely torpedoed those plans.

According to a Jewish news organization, quoting a Kuwaiti newspaper — sound like we’re playing the Telephone Game yet? — the government of Benjamin Netanyahu drafted a plan last year to send Israeli jets to Iran to bomb its nuclear facilities when it learned of a secret deal between the Obama Administration and Islamic republic. The plan was scrapped, however, when — according to Israeli officials quoted anonymously in the article — Obama personally threatened to blow the Israeli aircraft out of the sky.

• Under International Law, which liberals like President Obama seem to cherish above all else, Israel has a right to act upon its own national protection and survival.

• The “deal” being worked on between the U.S. and Iran — which still technically does not have diplomatic relations with our country — apparently puts restrictions on the development of nuclear power, but not on the development of nuclear weapons.

The Obama Administration is giving away the store and getting nothing — according to some reports, absolutely nothing — from Iran in return. And, Secretary of State John Kerry says this is another case of the administration sidestepping Congress, which has a constitutional role in foreign policy.